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Infrastructure Linux News for Oct 26, 2007

How Not to Treat Your Readership(Oct 26, 2007, 22:30)Editor's Note Everyone else reacts positively
to lies and outrageous behavior--only Linux users would be upset.
That's the questionable point made by an InfoWorld blogger who
incited the Linux community this week and then claimed it was all a
way to prove how bad the community's behavior really is.

Here's an Idea...(Oct 26, 2007, 21:45)HackFUD: "Writing the previous article sparked
off various thoughts in my head, one of which was 'what could be
done to get consumers to start realising that there is an
alternative to Windows on a PC or a laptop...?'"

The SCO-ification of NetApp(Oct 26, 2007, 21:00)451 CAOS Theory: "When Network Appliance
announced its patent infringement charges against Sun in September
the company went out of its way to try and ensure that it was not
seen as the next SCO Group..."

Red Hat: Open Source Consolidator(Oct 26, 2007, 19:00)451 CAOS Theory: "A few weeks ago I mentioned
the amount of merger and acquisition activity in the open source
sector in recent years and that it might worth trying to build a
table of open source M&A deals..."

Microsoft Says Windows May Soon Be On XO Laptop(Oct 26, 2007, 13:30)Reuters/InformationWeek: "Microsoft has made
progress in getting its Windows software to work on a low-cost
laptop computer for poor children that currently runs on rival
Linux software, an executive said Thursday..."

Mongolia Commits to One Laptop Per Child(Oct 26, 2007, 12:00)PR-Inside: "President Nambaryn Enkhbayar of
Mongolia announced today his commitment to provide every child in
his nation with a connected laptop by the end of 2010..."

KDE and Distributions: ALT Linux Interview(Oct 26, 2007, 06:00)dot.KDE: "Russia recently announced plans to
include GNU/Linux in every school in the country, and ALT Linux
hopes to be the chosen distribution..."

HOW TO: Setup a Web-Based BitTorrent Client(Oct 26, 2007, 03:00)J_K9@Linux: "How many times have you been stuck
at work when the latest episode of a podcast such as LugRadio has
become available for download, or the latest version of your
favourite Linux distribution has been released...?"

Google OS: The Scenario(Oct 26, 2007, 01:30)PC Magazine: "But instead, we hear a lot of
denial while Microsoft pushes its new agenda: advertising. And I'm
not talking about buying advertising, like any normal company in
the software business does, but about selling ads--as Google
does..."

I'm Typing This on a Classmate PC(Oct 26, 2007, 00:45)ZDNet Education: "My Classmate PCs arrived
today from Intel and I finally had time to break them out
tonight..."

Ahhh! What Did They Do to My Gimp?(Oct 26, 2007, 00:00)Penguin Pete's Blog: "I have good news and bad
news: the good news is that a ton of new features have been added.
The bad news is, the UI has been entirely re-designed..."